List of fan-owned sports teams

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This is a partial list of professional or semi-professional sports teams that are owned by fans (via either a collective organisation or where the assumption of majority ownership by a small group is prohibited by the club's constitution or governing documents) from all over the world sorted by home country. Teams playing at every level in each country are shown.

American football

Association football

Austria

Protest Clubs

Phoenix Clubs

Clubs controlled by their members

Belarus

Belgium

Bulgaria

Canada

Costa Rica

Croatia

Protest clubs

Czech Republic

England

Supporter Buyout

Phoenix Clubs

Protest Clubs

New Clubs which started as Supporter Owned

Minority Supporter Owned

Former Supporter Owned

Finland

Germany

German fan on bicycle

In Germany a majority control by a single entity (person, or company) is not permitted by the Deutsche Fußball Liga,[51] and is the German law for clubs. The law suggests a registered club should have minimum 7 members. The league requires that either a club, or a limited company which is controlled by a club with 50% + 1 vote can get a license to participate in the German first or second league. In the lower leagues, it is required to be a club.[52][53]

Shares of Borussia Dortmund, a German Bundesliga Club, are traded on the German stock market and are largely held by fans.

TC Freisenbruch, a club which was founded in Essen in 1902, is managed completely by the fans. The team currently plays in the ninth division of the German football league. Since July 2016, the club is managed via a webpage,[54] where the fans can make their decisions about, for example, the starting line-up or the prices for the jersey. For a small amount of money once a month, the fans become “team managers” (not members of TC Freisenbruch) on this webpage and are a part of Germany’s most exciting football project. They get exclusive information about the team, video and photo material and of course also data from performance tests or training sessions. It is also the decision of the fans to dismiss the manager of the club. At the moment, the team is trained by Mike Möllensiep.

Greece

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Japan

Mali

Nigeria

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Scotland

South Korea

Spain

Sweden

All sports clubs in Sweden are owned by its members. The Swedish Sports Confederation allows clubs to create limited companies together with investors as long as the club controls a majority of the votes.[67]

Turkey

Almost all sports clubs in Turkey are owned by its members.

United States

Uruguay

Wales

Australian Rules football

AFL:

Baseball

Basketball

Canadian Football

Futsal

Ice hockey

Canada

United States

Poland

Rugby League

Australia

NRL:

United Kingdom

RFL:

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